The True Cause of Dread and Anxiety: "When panic descends, we should try to reassure ourselves not with logical arguments about the grounds for hope but by wondering what a person who didn’t loathe themselves might be thinking now."
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Many thoughts, fears and desires that we might assume to be uniquely and disconcertingly strange - and that make us feel painfully ashamed - are in fact completely average. We've designed this set of cards as a tool of self-assessment and reassurance: https://t.co/5m0wAmarChhttps://t.co/Xve4arizqi

How to Be Open-Minded: "The open-minded are unafraid of what is inside the human soul. They understand that most of what we fantasise about will never be played out in reality & therefore doesn’t pose a threat to ourselves or the social order"
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How Knowledge of Difficulties Lends Confidence: "Confidence isn’t the belief that we won’t meet obstacles. It is the recognition that difficulties are an inescapable part of all worthwhile contributions."
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Are Intelligent People More Lonely?: "It is almost certain that people who have devoted themselves to self-honesty and self-observation have an above average chance of meeting with incomprehension, irritation, censorship or boredom."
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"We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped." - Martin Heidegger

The Cure for Love: "Passion can never withstand too much exposure to the full reality of another person. The unbounded admiration on which it is founded is destroyed by the knowledge which a properly shared life inevitably brings."
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"Pain is how we adjust to a new reality that a person has died; but our instinct is to block that pain, and with it, also joy." Julia Samuel opens a topic too little discussed: Grief & Sorrow #tsollive https://t.co/hxP0qW85i3

It’s far better to recognise the omnipresence and sheer normality of madness, waywardness and alarm in every single human soul. If we were all more honest about how we really feel, we’d all be just a bit calmer and more fulfilled. Express yourself: https://t.co/WkJAPY3ZTzhttps://t.co/ufBZvb0IHJ

"Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects,
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity." - Dieter Rams

A leap of faith means assuming certain things about people that you haven’t been told and cannot definitely prove. Take a leap of faith in our classroom and learn How to be Confident this month: https://t.co/JdkSunLUoUhttps://t.co/gScvhnCApb

‘Couldn’t We Just Be Friends?’: "It is friendship that offers us the real route to the pleasures that Romanticism associates with love. That this sounds surprising is only a reflection of how underdeveloped our vision of friendship has become."
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We’ve inherited a Romantic assumption that all that is unique, hard to find, exotic or unfamiliar is naturally fitted to delight us. Yet the paradoxical fact about happiness is how often it collects in some unprestigious places. Celebrate the ordinary: https://t.co/rbYH78aF5nhttps://t.co/tez0RvNqa5

How to Be Diplomatic: "We associate the term diplomacy with international relations but it really refers to a set of skills that matter in many areas of daily life, especially at the office and outside the slammed doors of loved ones’ bedroom."
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The Secret Sorrows of Over-Achievers: "What distinguishes over-achievers from the simply highly talented or driven is what powers them in their work. They labour primarily because they are subject to unusually intense psychological pressures."
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The difference between success and failure often hangs on a concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This book walks us around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential. Discover the secrets of confidence: https://t.co/uqtqfUjyS2https://t.co/kceYwPrbUy

Using rhyme and rhythm and all the tricks that make words stick, a poem pins down an elusive sliver of experience and shows us its true importance. We've compiled these short poems that are easily remembered, so they come to mind at the right times: https://t.co/0lKlNZVJcThttps://t.co/ucHCLNERPX

How the Right Words Help Us to Feel the Right Things: "Thanks to literature, we can be rescued from the closed diving-bells we are otherwise locked into. The right words break our isolation. They are the agents of, and conduits to, love."
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